Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful. : technology

[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

For muh profit$.

[+] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

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[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 years ago

ahh now it makes more sense why governments let it turn into an endemic virus

[–] spindrift@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But isnt this just kind of a negotiation price? In reality insurance companies will negotiate and make deals with lower prices, and people will still be covered for the same insurance cost, right?

Disclaimer: Not from US and I dont understand much about your insurance based health care system.

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[–] Jay@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Pfizer conducts research in various areas, including MS therapy. That costs a lot of money.

But I can't complain anyway, here in Germany you can get Paxlovid free of charge because it's prescribed by a doctor.

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[–] cricket97@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Trust the science folks. There's no reason why thes multinational pharma companies would do anything to hurt consumers.

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[+] danielfgom@lemmy.world -6 points 2 years ago

Just don't take the damn Vax. We now know that people who never got vaxed have better immunity than those who did. Studies prove it

So no point getting this crap just to make Pfizer rich

[+] Michal@programming.dev -7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

On the other hand the vaccine was free. What's their target market, the antivaxers?

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[+] Tygr@lemmy.world -7 points 2 years ago

$1400 is ridiculous but this post is ridiculous too. Hey OP, I want a vaccine to cure cancer. It’ll cost $13 to produce. Make it for me, test it, go through the approval process and I’ll sell it for $30. P.S. If I get sued, that’s on you too.

[+] Chr0nos1@lemmy.world -8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've been saying for years that universal healthcare won't solve the issue, unless we can get costs under control. If they can regulate medical related industries, such as pharma, the need for universal healthcare can be reduced or eliminated. As an added bonus, it would help keep the cost (ie. taxes) for universal healthcare a lot lower. This is pretty common for pharma companies to make insane profits like this, and it's extremely unethical.

[–] dmonzel@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago

universal healthcare won't solve the issue, unless we can get costs under control.

But universal healthcare would get prices under control. You're thinking completely backwards.

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[+] lntl@lemmy.ml -8 points 2 years ago

Before I bought Pfizer stock, this type of news would upset me.

[+] SirStumps@lemmy.world -10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I think the COVID treatments probably create more problems health wise than the disease. At least for younger healthier individuals. After getting the first two immunizations my wife developed pots which she didn't have before.

Edit: It's interesting that people are down voting me for my personal experience with the vaccine. I don't fault them because we are all different and experienced the vaccine differently but since there was little to no clinical testing and the people who received the vaccine were the test subjects I don't understand why people would be so defensive about it. I also understand if people don't believe me and that's ok too.

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